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kin
[kin] 
–noun
| 1. | a person's relatives collectively; kinfolk. |
| 2. | family relationship or kinship. |
| 3. | a group of persons descended from a common ancestor or constituting a family, clan, tribe, or race. |
| 4. | a relative or kinsman. |
| 5. | someone or something of the same or similar kind: philosophy and its kin, theology. |
–adjective
—Idiom| 6. | of the same family; related; akin. |
| 7. | of the same kind or nature; having affinity. |
| 8. | of kin, of the same family; related; akin: Although their surnames are identical they are not of kin. |
Origin:
bef. 900; ME; OE cyn; c. OS, OHG kunni, ON kyn, Goth kuni; akin to L genus, Gk génos, Skt jánas. See gender
bef. 900; ME; OE cyn; c. OS, OHG kunni, ON kyn, Goth kuni; akin to L genus, Gk génos, Skt jánas. See gender
Related forms:
kinless, adjective
-kin
| a diminutive suffix of nouns: lambkin. |
Origin:
ME < MD, MLG -ken; c. G -chen
ME < MD, MLG -ken; c. G -chen
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| kin (kĭn) n.
[Middle English, from Old English cyn; see genə- in Indo-European roots.] |
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kin
kin\ [Of Low German origin; cf. G. -chen, LG. -- ken.] A diminutive suffix; as, manikin; lambkin.Kin
Kin\, n. (Mus.) A primitive Chinese instrument of the cittern kind, with from five to twenty-five silken strings. --Riemann.Kin
Kin\, n. [OE. kin, cun, AS. cynn kin, kind, race, people; akin to cennan to beget, D. kunne sex, OS. & OHG. kunni kin, race, Icel. kyn, Goth. kuni, G. & D. kind a child, L. genus kind, race, L. gignere to beget, Gr. ? to be born, Skr. jan to beget. ?. Cf. Kind, King, Gender kind, Nation.]1. Relationship, consanguinity, or affinity; connection by birth or marriage; kindred; near connection or alliance, as of those having common descent. 2. Relatives; persons of the same family or race. The father, mother, and the kinbeside. --Dryden. You are of kin, and so a friend to their persons. --Bacon.Kin
Kin\, a. Of the same nature or kind; kinder. "Kin to the king." --Shak.Kin
Kin\, n. Also Kine \Kine\ [Gr. ? to move.] (Physics) The unit velocity in the C.G.S. system -- a velocity of one centimeter per second.
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Language Translation for : kin
Spanish:
familia, parientes,
German:
die Verwandtschaft,
Japanese:
親族
kin
O.E. cyn "family, race, kind, nature," from P.Gmc. *kunjan (cf. O.N. kyn, O.H.G. chunni, Goth. kuni "family, race," O.N. kundr "son," Ger. kind "child"), from PIE *gen- "to produce" (see genus). Kinship is a modern word, first attested 1833 in writing of Mrs. Browning.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Main Entry: kin
Function: noun
: one's relatives —kin·ship /-"ship/ noun
Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Law, © 1996 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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kin
see kith and kin.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
Copyright © 1997. Published by Houghton Mifflin.
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